There is a new gang in town, and it could be coming to a neighbourhood near you. Generation Zero’s bike gangs having been roaming the streets of Christchurch hunting for unenrolled voters on behalf of the Electoral Commission. Rosa Hughes-Currie, 23, Generation Zero’s regional field co-ordinator, said the Bike Gang… Read More »Youth 'bike gang' aims to enrol voters
Ferrymead Bays Football Club is pushing ahead with plans to install floodlights at its home turf after receiving council approval last week. The club will build six 13m-high light towers on one of its three pitches at Ferrymead Park and expects them to be up by November. President Gerard Cleary… Read More »Club to build light towers at Ferrymead Park
St Asaph art space Room Four is crowdfunding to stay open in the face of dwindling post-earthquake funds. Co-founders Rosalee Jenkin and Daegan Wells, both 24, have raised almost half of the $2,000 target they hoped to meet by August 9. “It’s a really good start,” Jenkin said. The funds… Read More »Room Four art space seeks online funds
by Georgia Weaver, reporting for the Christchurch Mail St John has installed 20 new top-of-the-line defibrillators in its Christchurch ambulances and rapid response vehicles. The $23,000 machines were paid for with $400,000 of donations raised through the service’s supporters’ scheme and appeal weeks. Service improvement manager Curt Ward, who is also… Read More »Donations fund new paramedic kit for ambulances
By Jess Pullar, reporting for the Christchurch Mail West Melton fashion design student Natalie Weaver is gearing up to sell her work for the first time. Along with other CPIT 3rd-year fashion students, she will be exhibiting her collection at FORM, an event hosted at The Colombo next month. Weaver,… Read More »Fashion design students put their work on show
By Georgia Weaver for The Press Lyttelton ceramicist Cheryl Lucas has an unlikely role in Christchurch’s rebuild – handmaking chimney pots for heritage buildings. Her latest piece, a metre- high ceramic pot to match the surviving chimney pots atop 160-year-old Riccarton House, was put in place yesterday. Lucas, a renowned… Read More »Potter hand-crafts chimney pots for rebuild
By Caitlin Porter for The Press Abraham, the much-loved star of children’s book The Builder’s Cat, has died, aged 20. The black half-Burmese feline was a kitten when Canterbury builder Gideon Couper started taking him to work – a move that inspired the 1999 book by award-winning author Gwenda Turner,… Read More »Abraham the book cat turns final page
By Hannah Herchenbach for the Christchurch Mail Rock and roll is alive in Christchurch – but where are the boys? Christchurch took out six first place titles at the South Island Interclub Rock and Roll Challenge on Saturday night [June 14] – but with 21 prizes, it was a slight showing from… Read More »Two girls for every boy — let's rock
By Rick Jordan for the Christchurch Mail Two Canterbury law students will travel to London in November for convicted murderer Teina Pora’s Privy Council appeal. The students, whose flights and accommodation will be paid for by the University of Canterbury, are preparing legal opinions for the Pora appeal, which relies… Read More »UC students on Pora case
By Georgia Weaver for The Press A police-monitored party register aimed at university students is being pitched to high-school pupils for the ball season. The Goodone.org.nz website was set up by the Riccarton West Neighbourhood Policing Team in February and has had 50 incident-free parties registered so far. Sergeant Steve… Read More »Party register pitched for high-school ball after-parties
